The Washington bee., 1887-11-19
THE HIGH SCHOOL AGAIN

ship of Prof. Cardozo.
We have since made further in.
quiries concerning this matter, and
deem the subject of sufficient i'm
portance TO our readers to refer to
il again, more fully and in detail.
Prof. Cardozo became principal of
the High School in Sept. 1884. At
that time there were Isl pupils, 16
boys and 135 girls. The school has
steadily increased each succeeding
year in numbers, and consisted OF
304 pupils in September 1887, 20
boys and 234 girls. The total num-
Der doubled, and the boys increased
more than four times in three years.
The faculty has also increased
from 4 regular teachers i'm 1884 to
9 in 1887, and two special teachers,
one in drawing, and one in music,
and DOW consists of Prof. Cardozo,
q graduate of Glasgow University,
Scotland, With the following able
corp of assistants Mr.. r.. 81. Ter
rell, a graduate Of Harvard Uni
versity; Prot. "a. M. Brown, a
graduate of Howard University
and Princeton; Misses Paterson
and Church, and Mrs. Cooper.
graduates of Oberlin College; and
Misses Barney, Riggs and Parke,
graduates of the high schools OF
Philadelphia, Calais, Maine; and
Washington, ID. O., respectively;
and Messrs Hunster and Grant,
special teachers. They teach the
following subjects: Prof. Cardo-
20, Political Economy, CONNER.
cial law and Bookkeeping; Mr..
Terrell, Latin and French; Prof.
Brown, German and Pysics; Miss
Barney, History; Miss Patterson,
Hi-tory and Literature; Mrs. Coop
er, Geometry and the Sciences
Miss Riggs, Rhetoric; Miss Parke,
Algebra; Miss Church, Latin; Mr..
Hunster, Drawing; Mr.. Grant, mu,
sic. There are two courses of study
pursued in both the white and col.
Ored High Schools, viz: an academic
course and a business course. The
former requiring THREE years for
It's completion and fitting the pu.
pills for college; the latter requir,
ing Two years, and fitting the pu-
pills for the Civil service and bust.
ness. The distinguishing feature
of the two courses is the study of
ancient and modern languages ex-
clusively in the academic, and
bookkeeping and commercial law
exclusively in the business.
While the two High schools the
white and the colored are similar
i'm several respects, there are points
of distinction which we think ought
to be removed, and which we urge
our colored Trustees to effect as
early as possible.
The points of resemblance are,
hrst; the large proportion ofcol-
lege graduates in the two faculties;
we think the two schools compare
favorably in this respect. Second I;
the course of study in the two
schools are identical.
The points of difference are, first;
the difference in the buildings and
the grounds and second, in the
Laboratory and apparatus. This
distinction would Immediately inn
press q visitor to the two schools.
The white High school has a large,
magnificent building, with study
halls, drill hall and armory, a spa,
cious library and reading room,
and extensive laboratory with
abundant apparatus and half a
square of playground. The colored
high school is cooped up in a
small building, not large enough
for itself alone, with the Normal
and Training schools and five pri'
mary schools in the basement, with
q little ante room for library and
reading room q another little anti
room for a laboratory, with nc
study hall, no drill hall, and M
armory, and no grounds for tn,
pupils thus forming the girls int
the streets during recess and yer,
tleapparatus.
The cause of these remarkabl
differences in the accommodation
for the pupils of the two school
respectively is to be traced to tn
mistaken principle of the pro rat
distribution of the cost of educs
tion in each school. Thus for in
stance, the white High school G
900 pupils claim that they shoul
get three times mole money tha
the colored High school of 800 pI
pills, for apparatus, and for buildiu
purposes. This policy has prevail
cd in the past and does now partl,
q the advantages referred to are a
tributable to this mistaken polio
alone.
We urge the celored Trustees